Kontai Ensemble – Music As a Mirror

The music of contemporary composer Sophia Jani is characterized by it's great independence from structures and conventions as well as by it's musical poetry within a minimalist approach. Her debut album Music as a Mirror" presents works for woodwind quintet, string quartet and piano. In the largely male environment with this album Sophia Jani aims to take a different perspective and position as a unique female voice. Sophia Jani's music lives from influences of various artists of all times and nations: from Bach and Schubert to the European and American avant-garde of the 20th and 21st century, to avant-pop artists like Bjo¨rk and Ryuichi Sakamoto, or electronic music producers such as Tim Hecker, Laurel Halo or Skee Mask. In this way, she creates music that spans a dramaturgical arc while suspending any sense of time - calm, powerful, elegant, dance-like. Thus she finds a poetic minimalism that takes it's listeners by the hand and imaginatively and cleverly opens a new horizon."

1. The Dark and the Light and Everything in Between
2. Woodwind Quintet No.1 Music As a Mirror
3. Everybody Was So Young I
4. Everybody Was So Young II
5. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars I. Introduction
6. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars II. Meditation
7. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars III. Intermezzo I
8. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars IV. Pocco Più Mosso
9. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars V. Reminiscenza
10. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars VI. Intermezzo II
11. String Quartet No. 1 See, the Grass Is Full of Stars VII. Coda
12. Andrà

Label: Neue Meister

Catalog: 302588

Genre: Classical